I'll add the other point of view.
Stuff all of that suggestion nonsense and belief stuff, because it doesn't work. Maybe it works for some people but I can tell you, unless your one of those people, it's like beating your head against a brick wall. You can think about lucid dreams all day and believe your a master lucid dreamer until the cows come home but it doesn't work. I certainly cannot placebo myself and I don't believe anyone else can either, because somewhere in your mind you know your not a master lucid dreamer.
My advice is give up on all the belief and awareness stuff and do something constructive and involved like FILD or WILD. (DEILD maybe?)